(CINCINNATI, Ohio) – Ethical Metalsmiths has announced their new slate of Board Members and Advisors for 2023.
Newly appointed to the Board of Directors are Cristina Villegas, Director of Responsible Sourcing & Sustainable Markets, Pact, and Brandee Dallow, Chief Communications & Sustainability Officer, Grandview Klein Diamond Group.
Newly appointed to EM’s Advisory Council include: Kyle Abraham Bi, Reflective Jewelry; Curtis Hidemasa Arima, Jewelry and Metal Arts Program at California College of the Arts; Megan Cochran, owner and designer; Brian Charles Cook, NatGeo; and Alexandra Hart, metals srtist, Designer Goldsmith.
The EM Board of Directors and Executive Committee are currently headed by president Monica Stephenson, ANZA Gems. Other Executive Committee members include Jay Moncada, Perpetuum Jewels; Wendy Woldenberg, WEND Jewelry; Jennifer Dawes, Jennifer Dawes Design; and president-elect Christina Malle, Christina Malle Jewelry.
The full EM Board also includes Anna Bario, Bario & Neal; Eric Braunwart, Columbia Gemhouse, Susan Crow, East Fourth Street Jewelry; Lucy Derickson, Jewelry and Metalsmithing/Crafts Area at Montgomery College; Jessica Hudson, VIPAKA Jewelry; Kathleen Kennedy, Adjunct Faculty: Virginia Commonwealth University, and Susan Wheeler Geraghty, Susan Wheeler Design and Chicago Responsible Jewelry Conference.
EM’s full Advisory Council includes Michelle Chaboudy, MacAbbey & Associates; Robin Gambhir, Fair Trade Jewellery Co; Susie Ganch, Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University; Andrea Hill, Jewelry Industry Consultant; Jared Amedeo Holstein, Stone Wholesaler & Lapsed Gemologist; Lisa Koenigsberg, Initiatives in Art & Culture; Joanne Lebert, IMPACT; Estelle Levin-Nally, Levin Sources; Kathleen Lynagh House, Kathleen Lynagh Custom Jewelry Design; Tracy Matthews, Flourish & Thrive Academy; Christina Miller, Christina C. Miller Consulting; Toby Pomeroy, Mercury Free Mining Challenge; Elizabeth Shaw, Jewellery and Small Objects department of Queensland College of Art Griffith University; Patricia Syvrud, US Kimberley Process Authority.
Ethical Metalsmiths, founded in 2004, is a member-based nonprofit and a community of caring buyers, jewelers, designers, and suppliers. Committed to transparent, responsible and environmentally-sound practices for all facets of the jewelry industry, EM strives to educate and connect people globally, from mine to market. EM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and membership is open to all, whether one is a “metalsmith” or not.
